The point is, "mistakes" (and I did not think they were mistakes at the time) made long in the past should not be allowed to accumulate and, collectively, render your site useless to users. But that's precisely what is happening.

Until this is fixed, I'm out. Your choices in designing the sort feature were poorly thought through. And your decision to not implement some form of "ignore" button was stupid (for lots of reasons, including that it would give you all sorts of extra info on site usage).

Assuming you actually do want to increase usage and readership, I'd suggest looking at actual problems being encountered by users and fixing those actual problems. And doing so at a slightly higher priority than work on goofy 5-star rating systems and half-completed "mobile" sub-sites.

Or maybe I'm wrong and everything is going great. In which case, carry on.

"Gritty" seems to be a specific real estate term which means that the hipsters have arrived, displacing the artists but the developers have not yet moved in to displace everyone. So it's still being used wrongly, though differently wrongly than you might suspect.

>"multiple discussions on the same problem doesn't get it any closer to the top"

Presumably the "engineer's queue" is ordered based on priorities established by whatever your equivalent of product management is. Two conventional high priorities for a product manager tend to be "low hanging fruit" and "let's not look like idiots". The third highest priority is often "people are complaining".

Since this has been a known, easy, dumb-looking mistake for almost three years now, it's pretty clear that the low-hanging and non-idiot priorities mysteriously do not apply. All that's left is the third. So unless CHTeam has an alternative suggestion, this seems like the only possible means available.

The old system where ancient threads would bubble to the top of not the first page but the second and subsequent pages of "my chow" worked well, even though it was never clear precisely what the sorting criteria were.

It's depressing every time I log in to chowhound to find the pathetic "Things I ate/drank in college that I will never eat again" thread once again at the top of my "my chow" listing. Yes, it was a mistake for me to have, once, a long long time ago, posted something to it. But now I cannot make it go away.

There are about 10 equivalent threads that, every time I log in, are there at the top of the list. It's bad enough that, frankly, I've stopped logging on very much lately. Go ahead, Ms. CH Admin, check my login history. See if it isn't in a prefect inverse relation to the frequency of posts to the now-hopelessly-banal "What did your Mom always have on hand, that you NEVER do?" thread that I mistakenly touched a couple of years ago.

Yes, I'm aware of the different sorting options. This is not a suitable alternative. "Sort by latest post" is almost precisely the right thing except it needs an option to prevent the turds from floating to the top. Which they constantly do.

Alternatively, returning to the old habit of deleting pointless, rambling, negative threads might also suffice. Unless what you're trying to cultivate here is pointless, rambling negativity. Which is what is happening. I couldn't be the only one driven away by this.

You're asking a question that, no joking, can best be answered by"check the recs section of whatever guidebook they took with them."

What they should really be doing is figuring out what the particularly greatplaces are right in their neighborhood. Because one of the more pleasurablethings out here is the way there's generally something pretty great no matter where you are. But if anyone's going to help with that, you're goingto have to spill a little more info ...

Well technically "glow-in-the-dark" means some form of chemoluminescence while the shine-a-black-light-on-it phenomenon is fluorescence. These are two very different things. "Fluorescent Jello" sounds just as tasty.

Their appeal is based, in part, in creating a sense of "I'm getting exactly what I get elsewhere but they've just put their own private label on it." Which certainly feels good. Sometimes they get busted.

Two weeks ago, there was a vendor selling paw paws at the Saturday ferry building market. Under a big sign that said "Paw Paw". I was rushed past by my coffee-seeking friends and intended to come back and get some but failed.

Well, Coi isn't dated upscale frenchy, though that's maybe the exception proving the rule. And even Patterson is making an oakland play.

Still, I walked past the new Quince last night and it looked stunning. It took a while before it hit me what the special detail was, something I haven't seen in a long time here on the east side: tablecloths!

That user seems to have signed up around June 16th. What's odd about someone signing up and adding a photo? Maybe he works there? There are well over 1,000,000 user accounts here and not all of them are actively posting things. Lots of people just read.

My choice would be: Waterbar. It's nextdoor to Epic Roasthouse. Has a fabulous patio in what is probably the single most spectacularsetting in the city -- right under the bay bridge. If you time your proposal to about 1.5 to 2 hours after moonrise, it will be up thereabove the bridge towers. And right there, not 50 yards to the north, isOldenberg's "Cupid's Span" sculpture: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/...

The place is ridiculously expensive. But what the heck, you're getting married.

While I dislike Bauer immensely and although Commis is right at the top of my list of Best Things Eaten All Year, I've gotta say I agree with pretty much all of his criticisms. Some things are just not working. What makes that interesting is the things that aren't working aren't errors in the sense of, "the pianist was hitting wrong notes", they're questions of interpretation as in, "his heavy-handed playing of the rondo threw the piece out of balance", which say as much about the listener as they do the performer.

On a practical note, we've addressed the overpriced wine issue on both visits by getting bottles from the middle of the white list, most of which are reasonable and well suited to the meal. The reds though are out of control.

That solution comes with its own problems. Threads you posted to months or years ago which you are, in fact, still interested in will then not pop to the top of the listing and you will probably miss them.

Not being able to flush a thread with an "ignore this topic" button, no matter how you have them sorted, is a significant annoyance.

One other thing that might work could be to hit the "report" link under yourpost(s) in the dopey thread and ask the moderators to delete your post. The system doesn't notify you of additions to threads that you've been deleted out of. And if enough people did this, the moderators might have better luck than we've had convincing the CH developers that it's an issue worth fixing ...

"Save" button is not working for me. I click on it and nothing happens.Safari/OSX/ latest everything. This page:http://www.chow.com/restaurants/55099...The rest of the editing features appear to be working.